With the purpose of characterizing fruits of yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa Deg) in plants irrigated with saline water, an experiment was conducted at Santa Cruz, RN, in the semi-arid zone of Brazil. The treatments were distribuited in randomized blocks, with four repetitions, using factorial design 5 x 2 corresponding the planting pits without coating (R0) and with side coatings (R1; R2; R3; R4; respectively one, two, three and four lateral sides), irrigated daily with volumes of 5 and 10 L of water. The water salinity higher then 3.0 dS m-1 did not show effect on the external and internal quality of the fruits. The increase of the volume of water resulted in larger mean weight of the fruits. The protection of the planting pits did not influence the length, diameter or number of seeds for fruit and neither the peel thickness, pulp percentage, total soluble solids, total titratable acidity or total vitamin C contents.
salinity; total soluble solids; Passiflora edulis
